Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Yes that 's how that 's how it was , yes all I was on that gate , I 'd been on that gate myself dozens of times .
2 I hated being on social security and I tried everywhere for a job .
3 Well Boris Yeltsin this morning has said that he wants a veto over the use of nuclear weapons and about ninety percent of which I think are on Russian soil , that perhaps can be interpreted , additional safeguard to have another veto .
4 The piece I did is on one side , and on the other is a piece by The Kronos Quartet , called Different Trains . ’
5 I had been on low-calorie diets and diets out of newspapers , but I just could not stick to them .
6 Within a week , I received a duplicated form to fill in stating all my details and demanding proof that I had been on that flight .
7 I 've been on that plane , I have been on that plane
8 Erm I like doing water colour painting and I 've been on two holidays down in Cornwall and I 've done that and that 's very relaxing erm and it seems , you seem to forget about everything else , and that 's quite good fun er but erm obviously if it rains all your , all your colours get washed away , but that 's good fun .
9 I 've been on automatic pilot for 25 years .
10 Since I 've been on this course , I 've been on the bus a few times .
11 I 've been on this circuit for six months now , but I 've been driving cabs for twenty-four years .
12 time and time again they sit on the sidelines saying this is what we think do n't talk to us about it do n't debate it , do n't ask us to think about it , take it or leave it , if you do n't give us what we want we 'll sit back and moan and sulk and they 've played , I think that 's a very irresponsible line they 've played in the five years I 've been on this council and I hope that er again the issue on the next item on the agenda represents a change of heart on their behalf .
13 I 'm hearing things now that I have not heard in fifteen years that I 've been on this County Council and I would suggest erm to Mr that when he 's talking about things that this County Council ought to print , and I think the one suggestion he came up with is very sensible , he could perhaps follow up with a catalogue of those things which he considers need doing that after a hundred years have not been done .
14 I 've been on thyroid tablets since 1939 , but they do n't affect me ’
15 Although since I 've been on these tablets I can eat
16 I 've been on that plane , I have been on that plane
17 A lady who suffers with a hiatus hernia wrote , ‘ I have had to take Rennies after meals for years but since I have been on this diet I have n't had a Rennie for five weeks !
18 You hate being on social benefits .
19 So after you 've finished training , you 're going down to the library , yes , to look up the names of the people luve in Street , and once you 've been on that appointment you 've got to go back to the branch and you 're gon na do your mail shots whatever you 're gon na do , put it in there .
20 ‘ I wish I 'd been involved with his case two or three years ago , ’ says Mr Stafford Smith , ‘ because the best shot you have is on direct appeal .
21 And then she 's been average on the last three or four months she 's been on eight stone .
22 Everything you need is on one level .
23 Well none of the lads were prepared to take that on , cos we 'd been on this contract with for the last eleven years .
24 V.W. I tried to get something going last year after we 'd been on this girls in secondary schools course .
25 We 've been without a Marshal nearly four months — not that I ca n't cope , but you know how it is when half the boys we get are on National Service and by the time you 've begun to knock them into shape they 're ready to leave . ’
26 We 've , we 've got the erm , we 've got the six hundred organizations running so far about three thousand events , probably a few more if you count every single er course that some of the training schools are running but in terms of key events I 'm very confident in being able to say there are three thousand events running around the country about half of which are new and that 's the important thing so about fifteen hundred new and inaugural events that did n't go on last year or the year before Belinda the R Y A Public Relations Officer has been coordinating the public relations campaign and these days to get the young pe young people and those young people whose parents do n't sail because it 's to get at the people whose parents do sail , you 've actually got to get in the media and er we 've been on Blue Peter , we 've been on Going Live another children 's programme on a Saturday morning and
27 ‘ Look , we have been on this world a matter of a few days .
28 I thought , would n't it be good though if they , if what they did is on that day we went they pick everyone who wanted like the jobs yeah
29 The pressures of wedded bliss excluded Sadie as effectively from the life of her former friend as if they had been on different continents .
30 They had been on Christian name terms for some time now .
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